List of Famous people who born in 1978

Masa Takumi is a Japanese Grammy Award winning multi-instrumentalist, composer, and music producer. He was nominated for a Grammy Award in 2014 for Best Reggae Album and won Best Global Music Album for his solo album, Sakura, at the 65th Annual Grammy Awards in 2023. His music video, Deep Down, was nominated for Best Independent Music Video at the Hollywood Music in Media Awards in 2018. He has written and produced songs for AAA, Da Pump, Eric Martin, and others.

Larry Ewing is an American computer programmer who is known as the creator of the Linux mascot, Tux. The artwork was created in 1996, while Ewing was a student at Texas A&M University, originally as a submission to a contest to create the Linux logo. Though Ewing's submission didn't win, his artwork was adopted as the Linux "brand character". Ewing also created the Ximian and Mono monkey logos and is involved in:

• F-Spot: a project aiming to "manage all your digital photography needs."
• GtkHTML: a fast and dirty HTML renderer and editor used in several free software projects.
• Novell Evolution: a mailer, a calendar and a contact manager, all in one.
• GIMP: an image manipulation program.
• Moonlight: an open source implementation of Silverlight for Unix systems.
• Mimekit: A C# MIME creation and parser library with support for S/MIME, PGP, TNEF and Unix mbox spools.
• .NET Foundation: an independent organization, incorporated to improve open-source software development and collaboration around the .NET Framework.

André Eminger is a German right-wing extremist. He supported the right-wing terrorist organization "Nationalsozialistischer Untergrund" (NSU) for more than 14 years. Eminger was sentenced to two-and-a-half years' imprisonment in the NSU trial on 11 July 2018 for the support of a terrorist group. He is referred to as the "most faithful supporter" of the right-wing terrorist group, showed no remorse and continued to be active in the right-wing movement.